Match Day Thread Hull City v Portsmouth

It will be a very common one in a few years.

 

Funny how some seem desperate to engage with me, but then as soon as I do, insist I put them back on ignore because they can't cope with a response.

 

Do Wah Imdidy Imdidy Dum Imdidy Do…

 

You are the one who puts people on ignore because you can’t deal with different opinions or being told you are spouting nonsense. I have never put anyone on ignore because only ****ers do that, as proven by the people who do.

 

Perhaps when the crowd shouted 'Hughes' the Florist supporting git thought it was 'boos'.


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I'm a multiple ****er

 

News please, not history.

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See some in charge in Scotland appear to be as unhinged as ever. Though there will some on here approving of this nonsense.

Scottish Correspondent
Scotland’s national reading charity is accused of changing the lyrics of beloved children’s songs with “politically acceptable gruel”.

The Scottish Book Trust, which runs more than 20,000 classes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers every year, has removed references to alcohol and violence from nursery rhymes and also made some versions of songs gender-neutral.

In the well-known children’s pirate song When I Was One the lyric “a bottle of rum to fill my tum, and that’s the life for me” has been changed to “a bottle of milk to fill my tum”.

The line “one for the little boy who lives down the lane” in one version of Baa Baa Black Sheep, which dates back to the mid-1700s, has been altered to “the baby who lives down the lane” making it gender neutral.

Meanwhile, What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor, based on a sea shanty that dates back to the 1830s, has become What Shall We Do with a Grumpy Pirate in the charity’s online song and rhyme library.

The line “shave his belly with a rusty razor” has been replaced with “do a little jig and make him smile”.

Well-known lyrics such as “put him in a long boat till he’s sober” have become “tickle him till he starts to giggle”.

The charity defended the changes, claiming it was common for songs to evolve over “successive generations”.

Variations such as the “grumpy pirate” reworking of drunken sailor are now widely used, it claimed, and said it had no issue with parents or children singing their own versions of songs.

‘It’s like something out of 1984’
However, the “ridiculous” alterations were attacked by Stephen Kerr, a Tory MSP, who claimed parents did not need “do-gooding politically correct commissars to tell them what to sing to their children”.

“Puritanical policing of our language is like something out of George Orwell’s 1984,” Mr Kerr said.

“Our children are the losers in this as our rich linguistic history is no longer being passed down the generations.

“Instead, our rich culture is being homogenised and turned into a politically acceptable gruel that will suck all the fun out of life.”

In its library, the second verse of the traditional Scottish song Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff a Bus, which dates back to the 1940s, has also been axed.

The second verse of the song states “Ye can shove yer other grannie aff a bus, push push”.

The Scottish Book Trust has income of around £6 million per year, the vast majority from the Scottish Government.

It distributes hundreds of thousands of free books every year and holds “bookbug” sessions for preschool children, where they are encouraged to sing nursery rhymes.

However, the charity has faced criticism for engaging in culture wars issues in the past.

It has adopted an American project called “Read Woke”, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, in which children as young as six are urged to read books designed to “empower them” to “engage with social justice issues”.

Last year, it banned the nursery rhyme Five Little Monkeys from its Bookbug sessions, after a review found the song had “historically racist intent”.

It is thought the song originated in America in the 1800s where the n-word was once used instead of monkeys.

It also axed Little Pebbles, which helps children learn to count, as an earlier version used “Indians” instead of “pebbles”, believed to be a reference to Native Americans.

‘Songs and rhymes change over time’
A spokesman for trust said: “We recognise that there is significant variation in different songs and rhymes and how they are sung. Many popular songs and rhymes change over successive generations.

“Often there are many versions of the same song, and we are happy to reflect that in the content on the Bookbug song and rhyme library.

“We encourage parents and carers to celebrate what they sing in different parts of the country.

“We encourage people working with Bookbug to adapt songs and rhymes to their circumstances and for the children and families they are working with.

“We also recognise that in some songs characters could be male or female eg the doctor in Miss Polly had a Dolly, so a variation could be sung.”

The trust said its revised version of Baa Baa Black Sheep, which substitutes “baby” for “little boy”, was designed for pregnant mothers rather than a deliberate attempt to make it gender-neutral.

 

Who gives a **** about a nursery rhyme lyric change

 

You really are a clueless ****, aren’t you? Maybe when you grow up, leave home and get out into the real world you will wise up.

 

Wee Fanny Winky?


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Well I was there and there were plenty of boos and jeers from the middle of the East Stand

 

Couldn’t hear them in West Upper.

 

Maybe it was old gammons booing, stamping & gnashing their gums at all the new words to nursery rhymes.

Jack & Phil went up the hill?
Mary had a plant based lamb?
The Wheels in the Bus are electric powered?
Little Mx Muffet?

 

I was looking for a large rotund gentleman who stands all game shouting until his gravelly voice sounds hoarse. But didn’t see one.

 

Large, rotund? A mirror may have helped. Standing & chanting … now that wouldn’t be you

West Upper … that wouldn’t be me.

 

Only place I could seats together for us. Absolutely crap. Great view but absolutely no atmosphere. Though unless you can get in North Stand or a couple of sections in East Standing and chanting will lead to disapproving stares and possible ejection.

 

You will get older too and you will be where the gammons are now as you call them . You’ll complain about the past , you’ll bemoan standards in all sorts of areas dropping or have dropped - and maybe you’ll reflect on your life and actions and realise you may have contributed to it - but I doubt you will .

 

Finally got around to watching the highlights, we had friends around on Saturday so didn't get to watch the game live. The second half was a bit grim, wasn't it.

 

Or I’ll move with the times, accept change as progress & be content & happy.